New Monday. New audio. This week: spies, double crosses, triple crosses, quadruple crosses, quintuple... you know, I think you get the idea. Enjoy! jonathanwood.substack.com/p/straight-u...

Morning. It's Friday, so there's fresh fiction up. This time a riff on spies and double crosses, with a mild side serving of total absurdity. Enjoy! jonathanwood.substack.com/p/straight-u...

Morning. Today, a brief post about one of my favorite things: action scenes. jonathanwood.substack.com/p/lights-cam...

Morning. Monday means another audio edition of Something's a Little Off. This week: tumorous buildings. Because... erm... reasons. jonathanwood.substack.com/p/a-virus-of...

Morning. Today's micro-fictional offering: a history of an event that never happened. Enjoy! jonathanwood.substack.com/p/a-virus-of...

Today's post about writing is a Venn diagram of D&D nerdery, LOTR nerdery, and psych major nerdery. You know who you people are. jonathanwood.substack.com/p/being-choi...

Morning. Today's audio venture: a history of the universe in sentences of 5 words or less. Because... why not? Enjoy! jonathanwood.substack.com/p/min-max-au...

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Morning. Much of the point of these weekly stories is to set creative challenges for myself. Today, I tried to tell the history of the universe in sentences of 5 words max. I wasn't sure if I'd be able to pull it off, but I sort of love what it did to my prose jonathanwood.substack.com/p/min-max

Morning! Today: some thoughts on maintaining your mojo the day after success. jonathanwood.substack.com/p/alternativ...

Morning. It's Monday and last week there was a Friday, and last Thursday it was Thanksgiving here in the US, which all means that I have a trash horror-comedy story up in both text and audio formats. Enjoy! jonathanwood.substack.com

Morning! Some quick thoughts about the mental balancing act that the act of creation requires. Enjoy! jonathanwood.substack.com/p/i-am-the-s...

Another Monday, another opportunity for me to witter nonsense in your ear. This week: denials, dismemberment, and disbelief. Enjoy! jonathanwood.substack.com/p/we-strongl...

Morning! It's Friday so I wrote another mini story. I will say, I'm happier with this title than I normally am... jonathanwood.substack.com/p/we-strongl...

Morning. This is a question I've been asked a few times, and because the answer is a little more complicated than you might think, I wrote it all down. jonathanwood.substack.com/p/why-do-aut...

Morning! Why not kick off your week with the audio one man performing a deeply meta play that clearly requires two people? Unrelated, but how does marketing my own writing work again? jonathanwood.substack.com/p/somethings...

Morning! I've got more free Friday fiction up. This week a deeply meta one-scene play. Because... why not? Enjoy??? jonathanwood.substack.com/p/somethings...

Morning. What's that? You were just thinking that you could really do with a bunch of paragraphs about paragraphs? Well that's a weird coincidence... jonathanwood.substack.com/p/when-do-i-...

I've got a little Monday-funny up today. Six minutes of me making an idiot of myself with a microphone in the form of a fantasy story about dragons. Enjoy! jonathanwood.substack.com/p/overplunde...

Morning! It's Friday again, and so I have committed fiction again. This week: dragons and greed-fueled disaster (incidentally based on the original concept for my Dragon Lords triology). Enjoy! jonathanwood.substack.com/p/overplunder

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Morning! "Something's a Little Off" has officially turned two! That means I've posted 1 story a week for 2 years now. So that's 104 stories available for free. Links to a few of my favorites from the past year can be found at the far end of the link below. jonathanwood.substack.com/p/the-terrib...

Morning! Missing Halloween already? Let the spooky season linger with today's story. jonathanwood.substack.com/p/trick-or-t...

Oh look, Halloween falls on Friday. Probably a good day to post a themed story then, isn't it? Well, I thought so. Today: a haunted house, some fun phobias, and candy! jonathanwood.substack.com/p/trick-or-t...

Morning. Today: a couple of thoughts about fantastic fiction, the awe it inspires, and the role of wonder in our lives. jonathanwood.substack.com/p/sensawunda

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Another Monday, another bit of audio. Got 6 minutes and need some existential pondering about maps, and wonder, and the benefits of unknown spaces in the world? Well, that's a remarkable coincidence, because I have a story about exactly those things. Enjoy! jonathanwood.substack.com/p/destinatio...

Morning. It's Friday and I have more free fiction for you. This week: map-making, tall tales, and a hatred of facts. Enjoy! jonathanwood.substack.com/p/destinatio...

Morning! Today, I've got a post up with a few thoughts about that old chestnut: art vs craft. One I left out: it's a popular topic because it almost rhymes! jonathanwood.substack.com/p/gollum-mode

Morning! Today I posted some H.P. Lampooncraft. Enjoy! jonathanwood.substack.com/p/notes-sent...

If you have not read The Wicked + The Divine then you have deprived yourself of pretty much the best comic of the past... I don't know how long. A long time though. Like the sort of time that you are sure wasn't that long ago, but then you see how old Macaulay Culkin looks now and you're horrified.

Morning. I probably had slightly too much fun writing today's flash story. A little horror-comedy epistolary thing. Hope y'all enjoy! jonathanwood.substack.com/p/notes-sent...

Morning. Today, I posted some thoughts on horror fiction, and some recent insights into how it operates. There, now you know what I posted today. Lucky you? jonathanwood.substack.com/p/the-horror...

Morning. It's Monday so I've got a new bit of audio up. A little horror experiment where I got curious about what would happen if the horror element truly couldn't be put into words. Enjoy! jonathanwood.substack.com/p/indescriba...

Another Friday, another free story. This week, I was curious what would happen if a tale's horrors were as indescribable as Lovecraft used to say they were before he described them in loving detail... jonathanwood.substack.com/p/indescriba...

Morning. I have been asked a handful of times over the years about how traditional publishing works, so I decided to put everything I know into one (hopefully) handy article. Hope some folk get use out of it! jonathanwood.substack.com/p/how-gettin...

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Morning. Another day, another 6-minute podcast. This week: the name is also the thing it is: me trying to figure out as many ways to describe a sunrise as I can within 1000 words. All without descending into a cheesy mess (hopefully). Enjoy! jonathanwood.substack.com/p/29-sunrise...

Hello, hello. It's another Friday, so there's another story up. Or... perhaps a self-indulgent creative writing exercise that I'm trying to pass off as a story. You decide! Enjoy? Maybe? jonathanwood.substack.com/p/29-sunrises

Morning! Today I flung some words at the wall, and some thoughts about descriptive writing, and using language in odd ways emerged. Enjoy! jonathanwood.substack.com/p/were-in-th...

Morning! It's Monday so I've got new audio fiction up. This week, I'm poking again at the idea of what we do when confronted with the inexplicable, this time around featuring naked bodies frozen in the ice. Enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...

Morning! It being Wednesday, today I threw up some thoughts on writing and productivity. Enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...

Morning! It's Monday! Start things right by listening to a silly story based on a silly typo. Go on. Do it. jonathanwood.substack.com/p/the-cod-wa...

Horror folks, it's the middle of September, and the Stoker Recommended Reading List is looking extremely small. If you're a member of the HWA, go recommend something you've read that you loved! horror.org/awards/curre...

Morning. I misread the words "The Cold War" this week. The result: this incredibly silly story. jonathanwood.substack.com/p/the-cod-war

Morning. Today, I put up some thoughts about that old chestnut "write what you know" and why I largely disagree with it. Because I'm ornery on Wednesdays, that's why. jonathanwood.substack.com/p/advice-abo...

It's Monday, so I've got some fresh audio up. Trapped princesses, towers, and incipient madness. All you need to kick off your week. Enjoy! jonathanwood.substack.com/p/a-fantasy-...

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Morning! This week's free story: a quick riff on the Rapunzel fairy tale. Just with a lot less fairy. Enjoy! jonathanwood.substack.com/p/a-fantasy-...

Morning. Today, I posted some thoughts on worldbuilding, and the joy of grimy, lived-in places. jonathanwood.substack.com/p/go-then-th...